Petition Pushes Sesame Street’s Bert And Ernie To Get Married

NEW YORK — An online petition is pushing to have Sesame Street’s Bert and Ernie characters get married. Chicago resident Lair Scott started an online petition at Change.org to pressure the Sesame Street Workshop to “Let Bert & Ernie get married on Sesame Street.”

The petition reads, “We are not asking Sesame Street to do anything crude or disrespectful…. It can be done in a tasteful way. Let us teach tolerance of those that are different.”

Sesame Workshop responded in a statement: “Bert and Ernie are best friends. They were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves.”

I was not ever aware these two muppets were actually gay, when I was a kid I just thought they were an on going parody of the Odd Couple. But I guess “Queer” is another word for “Odd.”

What do you think?